Does GARP really fail miserably? A response to Stockman et al. (2006)

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 782-786

  McNyset, Kristina M ^a,b   Blackburn, Jason K ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GARP; Predictive ecological niche modelling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; NICHE; PREDICTION; SPIDER;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ARANEAE; NEMESIIDAE; PROMYRMEKIAPHILA;

EID: 33750469375     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2006.00281.x     Document Type: Article

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